Women only: Regarding the use of the term 'girls' to describe women.

[Mc Mike]

364. I'm sorry you feel that way. It wasn't meant as an attack.

I'm not trying to demagogue you, just putting it in perspective (and just my perspective). The two issues are gender and equality issues, and from what your post 298 said, I felt we were both mad about the War on Women, and were allies. I still feel that, from this current post 331. The answer to who hurts more, is 'that stranger in Philly', who's being physically attacked by that Barney Rubble looking swine Corbett. I suggest tabling the disagreement about rhetoric, while we're busy pounding the repugs into rubble, as allies.

I don't see the Women's Issue posters' as having hypocrisy. They are trying to frame the issues so as to achieve progress, or at very least fight off the nazis' moves against women and us all. I don't see you as having hypocrisy. I see the hypocrisy of the 'pro-life' repug 1%, who 'care' about that fetus as a human, until month nine. After that, let the little welfare fraud starve. They just want control over the reproductive rights of the 99%. On one hand, the repugs are saying 'if I had my way, those women would be forced to undergo state mandated rape, and have to pay for it.' On the other hand, since the women here are all just interacting on line, there is little chance of any 'Maoist Feminist Separatist' re-education camp style 'forced therapy'. From my perspective,there's only one real threat here, and I wish all allies would declare armistice, go separate paths, and fight the bad guys together, even if on different fronts.

That's it Dutch. I'm all tuckered out. We could make a 15 page booklet between our postings here, but probably no one would read it. I again respectfully suggest abandoning this thread we hijacked, and if you o.p., I'll weigh in. As succintly as possible, unlike this time. I have no disrespect toward you, we just disagree on the significance\importance of certain methods used by people to address other people. And maybe a little about which issues to expend energy on in defending peoples' rights, and which targets to use that energy against.